Man this was a crazy week, a
very good one though! All of the converts are doing very well. I.
and M. have been talking about the church to lots of people.
M. even defended herself and the church from one of her cousins
over Facebook who was dissing on her decision to be baptized. Haha,
I. showed us the messages...SO FUNNY :) Haha, we got them a really
good start to their family history! I. already has found a few names
and she'll be going to the Registro Civil this week to find even more!
She'll be way prepared to go to the temple here in a week or so to do
baptisms and confirmations. They went to the Chilean Independence Day
celebration in the stake and had lots of fun! They were confirmed
members of the church on Sunday and brought a few non-member friends and family. :)
C. and J. are also doing well! We had a good FHE with them this last week. On Monday
we went and showed them the video...Moutain of the Lord...in order to
prepare them for family history work and doing ordinances in the temple.
They really, really liked it and it made me want to go to the temple
SOOO bad! :) haha, I think Elder Thomas and I are going to go after this
week ends. Anyways, they also participated in the celebration. C.
won the sack hopping contest, so that was pretty sweet! :D They were
also confirmed members of the church on Sunday
and the elder's quorum president and the high priest assigned to the
ward are helping J. start to prepare to receive the Melchezideck
priesthood in a few months (both he and C. were ordained to the
Aaronic priesthood on Sunday as well)!!! :) Anyways, things are looking great with them, so that's way happy!
Another
cool experience from this last week had to do with an investigator that
we had dropped a little over a month ago... J.A. For a long time
we have been trying to get back in contact with him but nothing
happened. Finally we set an appointment with him for yesterday but when
we went by his daughter said he wasn`t home... Later that night at 9:00
we had NOTHING TO DO and it was raining and hardly anyone was in the
street. I thought, let's try going by J.A. one more time so we
did...and he was there. We went inside and he explained how much work he
has been having and everything and the big changes in his life. He also
shared with us that he wants to be baptized still, he wants to keep
going to church, and dedicating more time to the Lord. Anyways, we gave
him some assignments and we felt as though we should set another date,
so we invited him for the 5 of October
and he accepted. He went to church yesteday and in elders quorum he said
that he hopes to one day receive the priesthood (because he had seen
J. and C.'s ordinations :) Anyways, it looks like a legit miracle
:)
Well, not much happened this week. We are
trying to find new investigators, Elder Thomas is on his last 3 weeks of
the mission, I just got the paper asking me to confirm the information
for my plane ride home (in 6 months...:S), not much to tell! :) Haha!
I love you all, take care!
Elder Bushman
Photos from the Stake's Independence Day Celebration:
Anticucho barbeque
P-Day Photos - National Park (Quebrada de Macul):
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